Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A book I asked, “Why that was there?” (A lot.) But learned as I read.

When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey

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When I first looked at When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey, I immediately put it down again. I was not in the mood for witches, teen girl drama or magic. But when I found it sometime later, I thought, oh why not? Not like I had to finish. Yet, I would go onto finish, even with misgivings. There is a slow beginning to this teen novel. In fact, the whole pace of the story can be slow with a rushed and mostly incomplete, unsatisfying […]

Future reads I recommend now (so go and preorder at your local independent bookstore)

Book Buddies V01 Ivy Lost and Found by Cynthia Lord

Spider-Ham Graphic Novel: Great Power, No Responsibility by Steve Foxe

Waffles and Pancake: Planetary-YUM by Drew Brockington

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I said to myself this weekend: What did I do to log myself out of my Simon and Schuster account of free ebooks? Of course, who knows what the password is as it is the only one that I have not put on my list of passwords (hiding in my hidden spot). So, what is a poor girl to do? Go old school with wonderful and amazing in your hand reader copies! Book one was Book Buddies V01 Ivy Lost and Found created by Cynthia […]

Did you know that there is such a thing as Mongolian Death Worms? Well, at least in this book

The Very True Legend of the Mongolian Death Worms by Sandra Fay

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I did not dig this book on worms. Or more specifically Mongolian Death Worms, as the title, The Very True Legend of the Mongolian Death Worms tells us. It is a bit cliché, and the “be friends with the odd-looking neighbors” has been done before. And the illustrations were so not my style; with the uncooked hotdog look, the fluffs of hair all over, bugged out eyes and teeth that are a lot sharper looking than “not so sharp.” With that said, I know several […]

I love you in my own special way

A Unicorn Named Sparkle and the Perfect Valentine by Amy Young

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I am not usually a big fan of Sparkle and Lucy, but there was something about A Unicorn Named Sparkle and the Perfect Valentine that “got me.” And I do not know how Amy Young did it, but they made me like Valentines Day. They made me want to make Valentines for all my friends right now and not wait until February. However, I do not want to make them in the special way Lucy makes hers (or not just the way she does them), […]

Move over RuPaul there are new queens (and kings) in town

Kings, Queens and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteiu

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I read two radically different books this weekend. The first was Kings, Queens and In-Betweens by Tanya Boteiu and the second, Saving Winslow by Sharon Creech. If you know Sharon Creech, even her “edgy books” are tame. Especially tame compared to drag queens and kings. And there are kings, queens, and in-betweens galore in the book of the same name. Boteiu has characters that flow naturally even if some of them tend to be a bit of a cliché. But it works. This is a book […]

“something that combines the majesty of enya with the mystery of…enya”

Giant Days, Vol. 4 by John Allison, Max Sarin, Whitney Cogar

Giant Days, Vol. 5 by John Allison, Max Sarin, Whitney Cogar

Giant Days, Vol. 6 by John Allison, Max Sarin, Whitney Cogar

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A really fun thing about failing to write reviews in a timely manner means that I get to go back and re-experience the joys of comics in order to accurately recount my thoughts! Hooray! It’s harder when I procrastinate with novels, but digging back through volumes of comics is far from the worst way to kickstart a writing project! Unluckily? Luckily? I have nearly a dozen Giant Days to catch up on, so I can relive their adventures while I hunch over my keyboard on this […]



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